#Monopolies

Robin Berjon

robinberjon

It will be interesting to see if the courts can stop regulatory capture. Those who work their best to abide by privacy legislation are facing competition from companies that don’t,

Karl Bode

KarlBode

AT&T has probably done more to stall the expansion of affordable, broadband (and competition) than any company in existence. Its reward: a published piece in Politico where a monopoly gives

Dees Bees

digweeg

Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Second Bill of Rights, 1944The Second Bill of Rights was a list of rights proposed by Franklin D. Roosevelt during his State of the Union Address on

John F. Kennedy III🕊🎺🦅🇺🇸

JFK_III

#VoteThemAllOut Vote for constitutional, anti-corruption, populist independents who stand starkly opposed to corruption that has seeped into both levels. What happens when a system is run by corrupt politicians? They

Mike Azar

AzarsTweets

1/ BDL appears to be proposing that all official intl humanitarian aid (~$1.5bn in 2021) be channeled through BDL and given to recipients in LBP at a rate of 6,200

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moonchildwander

Dugin doesn’t want to destroy the West; he wants to destroy Atlanticist neoliberalism. While neoliberalist apologists claim that liberal markets are the key to prosperity based on free trade, neoliberalism

seetha

soorpanakha

Read various news reports on govt-farmers talks & am puzzled by 2 demands: are they really coming from farmers? Or is it traders lobby at work? 1. Since no fees/taxes

Angelo John Gage

AngeloJohnGage

The Free Market is garbage; it allows parasites to rise and take advantage of your fellow citizens. The "adjustments" made are well after people are robbed and destroyed. Corporatism solves

StockChartArt

CasualtyWar

Facebook, Twitter, Google, Apple, etc. all acting in concert. Companies that collectively control the information flow for 3 billion peopleCompanies, without which, modern life is impossible.These companies have just announced

Glenn Greenwald

ggreenwald

This whole thread by @Jack should be read. He's clearly the Silicon Valley executive who engages most, listen most to feedback, and is clearly torn about the power foisted on

Alexander Kruel

XiXiDu

The private platform argument in defense of censorship by opinion-forming monopolies like Facebook makes about as much sense as a defense of the expropriation of a minority on the basis

ron knox

ronmknox

1. A few quick thoughts about the Facebook antitrust suit and what it might mean for fighting monopoly power in the coming months/years. Basically, it's a good thing that will

Haresh Chawla

hchawlah

NPCI’s marketshare capping on UPI payment platforms is a shot across the bows of Big-Tech which has cross-subsidised and (ab)used consumer data into market dominance. The move will create precedent

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

Google is facing anti-monopoly enforcement action in the EU and the USA and the UK, with more to come, and the company is starting to get nervous. 1/ It's just

Young Legionnaire

YNGLegionnaire

It's a category error to describe Spotify as a music company, or Daniel Ek as someone who has any interest in what music really is, how it works, what its

Siri Agrell

SiriAgrell

What would I do? Going to require a thread.1. The antitrust measures in the US are a good start. You need to break up the monopolies and address the anti-competitive

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